Ignacio Avila

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Ignacio Avila
Personnel
Surname Ignacio Avila
birthday 1910
place of birth Jerez de García Salinas ,  Mexico
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Calaveras del Terror
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1925-1926 Marte de Algodonal
1926-1929 CD Guadalajara
1929-1930 Marte FC
1930-1938 Necaxa
1938 - ???? Atlante
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1934 Mexico 9 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1945-1946 CD Guadalajara
1 Only league games are given.

Ignacio Ávila (* 1910 in Jerez de García Salinas , Zacatecas ; † unknown), also known by his nickname "Calavera", was a Mexican football player who mostly played in the attacking midfield and was temporarily active as a coach after his active career .

biography

society

Born in the state of Zacatecas, Ávila came to Guadalajara at the age of three , where he began his football career with a club called "Calaveras del Terror". This was founded by a group of young people and named after a series that ran in cinemas in the 1920s. When Ávila changed clubs for the first time, his new comrades called him “Calavera” (German: skull ), based on his origins ; a nickname that stayed with him all his life.

In the 1925/26 season Ávila played his first game in the League Amateur de Jalisco in the ranks of the Club Marte de Algodonal . In the following season he moved to Club Deportivo Guadalajara and was soon called to the Selección Jalisco . When they played some games in the capital in 1929 , General Aguirre, mentor of Club Marte , noticed him and made him an offer, which Ávila accepted. Just a year later, Ávila moved to Club Necaxa , with whom he won several titles and became part of the legendary team that went down in Mexican football history as Once hermanos (German: eleven brothers) .

National team

Between 1934 and 1938, Ávila played nine international matches for his home country . His debut took place in a World Cup qualifier against Cuba (3-2) on March 4, 1934. In the all-important 2: 4 against the USA, through which Mexico missed out on the World Cup , Ávila was there as well as in the games for the Central American Championship in 1935 in El Salvador, which Mexico dominated (5 wins with 29: 5 goals in 5 games ) won. His last international match, won 1-0 by Mexico, he played on February 14, 1938 in Venezuela.

successes

society

National team

  • Central American champion: 1935

swell

  • Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1961), p. 290
personal data
SURNAME Ávila, Ignacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calavera (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerez de García Salinas , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH 20th century
Place of death Mexico